The Enemy

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The Enemy
J. D. Pendry

We have met the enemy and he is us. – Pogo, Walt Kelly

It’s our third year of the Global War on Terrorism. Following September 11, 2001, Americans showed the world a united front. Politicians stood on the Capitol steps singing God Bless America and American flags sprouted up everywhere. A short time later, the unity façade disappeared. The flags faded away, the politicians returned to producing sound bytes for television cameras and America’s anger turned inward. We focused our energy toward fixing blame rather than toward defeating the Islamic-Nazis that have perpetrated multiple atrocities against us. Do you know what’s sad? They knew we would we do it. What’s worse is we knew we would do it and we couldn’t help ourselves. Our politicized “news” media continually portrays the vocal minority as the majority, terrorists as “religious” leaders, and our war against terror as a failure. The irresponsible use of our revered right of free speech by partisan politicians, the media and celebrities is replacing terrorism as our most dangerous enemy.

Bin laden and the world’s Islamic-Nazis cannot defeat us. Yes, I think the term Nazi is an accurate one. The Nazis believed in a master race. They believed that no one who wasn’t like them or couldn’t be like them should populate the earth. They believed Jews were the root of all their problems. So I believe Islamic-Nazi accurately describes Bin laden and his followers. America is choosing to lose now just as it did in 1975. The Vietcong and the North Vietnamese Army could not defeat us. North Vietnamese generals have written that following their failed Tet offensive of 1968 they were militarily defeated. They continued to fight (for another seven years) because the anti-war movement in America and the politicians that pandered to it encouraged them to. They concluded that America did not have the will to stay the course and achieve total victory. They were right. This history lesson is lost on Americans who hate our President and wish to bring him down more than they wish to defeat terrorists. Americans never felt the pain the Vietnamese did after our political failure there. It’s a distant place and the Killing Fields was just a movie. The Vietnamese could never attack America, but the terrorists have, can and will again. The way that we left Vietnam brought more tragedy to the region than our being there did. If we disengage the war on terror or leave it to a body such as the United Nations, we’ll repeat our mistake. Only this time, we’ll feel the pain right here at home.

Lenin referred to people in America who were defending him and the Soviet Union, while he was starving millions to death, as useful idiots. Today, we have more idiots that are useful. What’s unfortunate is that they are being useful to terrorists. Once again, they encourage our enemies to continue the fight.

Some examples for you:

How often have you heard the political left refer to the fact that Vice President Cheney once ran the Halliburton Corporation? How many times have you heard them infer that the link still exists and because of it, policy is affected? Read carefully what Bin laden had to say in his latest tape.

This war brings billions of dollars to big companies, either to those that manufacture weapons or those who reconstruct Iraq, like Halliburton and its sister companies. And from here it becomes clear who benefits from the outbreak of wars and bloodshed: war traders and vampires who administer world politics from behind the curtain. – Osama Bin Laden, April 15, 2004 audio tape

Ted Kennedy made a speech recently. Here are some interesting excerpts:

They repeatedly invent “facts” to support their preconceived agenda – facts which Administration officials knew or should have known were not true. This pattern has prevailed since President Bush’s earliest days in office. As a result, this President has now created the largest credibility gap since Richard Nixon. He has broken the basic bond of trust with the American people. – Ted Kennedy

He also would not have lied to people and said that we hate freedom and kill for the sake of killing. Reality proves our truthfulness and his lie. Ted’s Ally, Osama Bin Laden, April 15, 2004 audio tape

I believe Ted and Osama might be using the same Democrat talking points.

In the same speech, Kennedy made the Vietnam connection:

He’s the problem, not the solution. Iraq is George Bush’s Vietnam, and this country needs a new President. – Ted Kennedy

Senator Robert Byrd added his Vietnam connection in another speech:

Now, after a year of continued strife in Iraq, comes word that the commander of forces in the region is seeking options to increase the number of U.S. troops on the ground if necessary. Surely I am not the only one who hears echoes of Vietnam in this development. Increasing the US troop presence in Iraq will only suck us deeper and deeper and deeper into the maelstrom -- into the quicksand of violence that has become the hallmark of that unfortunate, miserable country. - Robert Byrd


Kennedy and Byrd should recall, however, that it was his Kennedy’s brother who got us into Vietnam, his brother’s Democrat successor that got us deeper in, President Nixon that got us out of it and a Democrat Congress that abandoned support for Vietnam once we left it. If Senators Kennedy and Byrd could have their way, the war would be another Vietnam. It would be another political failure and another failure of American will. The terrorists are counting on that.

Within hours of the Kennedy and Byrd speeches, Muqtada al-Sadr broadcast this message:

I call upon the American people to stand beside their brethren, the Iraqi people, who are suffering an injustice by your rulers and the occupying army… Otherwise, Iraq will be another Vietnam for America and the occupiers. - Muqtada al-Sadr

Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury, I’ve clearly established that useful idiots are once again encouraging our enemies. Oh, but there’s more.

One thing that was extremely rare, until recently, was to hear a former President criticize the current President. President Clinton has taken his potshots, but the worst has come from President Carter.

President Bush's war was ill-advised and unnecessary and based on erroneous statements, and has turned out to be a tragedy. - Former President Jimmy Carter, April 9, 2004, The Houston Chronicle

Do you like his characterization? It’s not the war on terror. It’s not the war in Iraq. It’s “Bush’s war”. Let me offer this to you since it seems more important to place blame than fight terrorists. The war in which we actively engaged after September 11, 2001, started under Mr. Carter’s watch. No, I’m not stretching, read on. We once had an ally in the region. Mohammed Reza Pahlavi was the Shah of Iran from 1941 to 1979. He lost power briefly in 1953. With American help, he regained it. The Islamic-Nazis lead by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini didn’t like his social and political reforms. In 1979, (while the Carter administration sat on its hands and watched), they drove the shah, our ally, into exile. We allowed the Shah to come to the United States for medical treatment. Khomeini’s response to that was to take over the U.S. embassy (which under international law is the sovereign territory of the United States) in Teheran. The terrorists (which our news media called “students”) held the embassy staff hostage for 444 days. I’m no great political or Middle-East analyst, but following that, were I a leader in the region I’d find it hard to proclaim myself a U.S. ally.

Here’s what's in the Carter library on the topic:

On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the United States Embassy in Tehran and took approximately seventy Americans captive. This terrorist act triggered the most profound crisis of the Carter presidency and began a personal ordeal for Jimmy Carter and the American people that lasted 444 days.

President Carter committed himself to the safe return of the hostages while protecting America's interests and prestige. He pursued a policy of restraint that put a higher value on the lives of the hostages than on American retaliatory power or protecting his own political future. (emphasis mine). – http://www.jimmycarterlibrary.org/documents/hostages.phtml
Yes sir Mr. President, you clearly protected our prestige in the region and I’m sure that your policy of restraint would work just as well now as it did then. The terrorists released the hostages, by the way, at the time of President Regan’s inauguration.

When partisan politicians and slanted media coverage cannot succeed in swaying the will of our country, the appeasers resort to another tactic. They go to work on the morale and minds of American Soldiers and those who support them.

Treating soldiers fighting their war as brave heroes is an old civilian trick designed to keep the soldiers at it. But you can be sure our soldiers in Iraq are not all brave heroes gladly risking their lives for us sitting comfortably back here at home. – Andy Rooney

Mr. Rooney added that he’d like to see a reporter ask these questions of soldiers in Iraq.

1. Do you think your country did the right thing sending you into Iraq?
2. Are you doing what America set out to do to make Iraq a democracy, or have we failed so badly that we should pack up and get out before more of you are killed?
3. Do the orders you get handed down from one headquarters to another, all far removed from the fighting, seem sensible, or do you think our highest command is out of touch with the reality of your situation?
4. If you could have a medal or a trip home, which would you take?
5. Are you encouraged by all the talk back home about how brave you are and how everyone supports you?

Mr. Rooney, if you’d monitor news other than what’s broadcast inside your head and by the Chronic Bovine Scatology network for which you work, you’d have the answers to your questions. Just last night I watched LTC (USMC, Retired) Oliver North interview two Marines in Ramadi, Iraq. Had you listened to that interview, maybe you’d have gotten to know America’s fighting men somewhat better. Neither of the previously wounded Marines interviewed by LTC North opted to Kerry out when they could have. When asked by LTC North why they chose to stay, they stated they were proud to be where they were and doing the job they were doing. Does that answer your questions? Every man and woman in the Armed Forces of the United States volunteered to serve. They have a purpose and know what it is. When our fighting men and women prevail, and they most certainly will, it’ll be because they had to overcome our enemies there and the likes of you, Teddy, Bobby, Jimmy and other useful idiots here. It shouldn’t have to be that hard for them. They should expect better from all of us sitting comfortably back here at home. At the end of it, Mr. Rooney, you can sit there on the Chronic Bovine Scatology network and tell us how disappointed you are that they actually won and question why most Americans are proud of them for doing it.

Copyright © JD Pendry, This article may be electronically shared, republished or reprinted in it’s entirety with original credit given.
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